I Send My Love To Thee

Valentine depicts a young boy and young girl ringing a silver bell hung in a flowering branch. The boy is dressed in brown and gold, the girl in green and white with red shoes. A small branch from the tree has fallen to the patio next to the children. Verse printed on the back of the card entitled, "Valentine" reads: Golden hair, golden hair, crown of my queen,/Where is the ore that can equal your sheen?/Jasper, and jacinth, and amber may shine;/All are outdone by my proud Valentine./Golden hair, golden hair, crocuses peep,/Hoping a glint of your radiance to keep/Daffodils droop, and pale primroses pine,/What can seem fair beside my Valentine?/Golden hair, golden hair, when comes the day/Gold turns to silver, and roses decay;/Untarnished, then, shall this love be of mine,/If you will take it now, dear Valentine.

Subjects

Bells; Boys; Girls; Greeting cards; Valentines; Verses (Poetry)

Printer

Unidentified

Dimensions

10 x 7 cm

Date

1880-1890

Manuscript Collection

MSS 440, Greeting Card Collection

Repository

The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts

Publication Rights

Requests for permission to publish material from this collection must be submitted in writing to the Manuscript Librarian at the Phillips Library.